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No. 553,441. Patented Jan. 21, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALLIE R. IVELOH, OF CHELSEA, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK P. GLAZIER, OF SAME PLACE.

OIL-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,441, dated January 21, 1896. Application filed March 4, i895. Serial No. 540,488. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLIE R. VVELCH, of Chelsea, in the county of VVashtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oil-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in an improvement in oil-stoves, hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a vertical central section through a part of the stove. Fig. 2 is a plan View of part of one of the griddle-plates. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of a portion of the top of the stove surrounding the pot-hole, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the cones on the supporting-plate and combustion chamber or chimney.

A represents the top of an oil-stove, usually made of sheet-iron and supported on legs J.

I represents a plate running across the stove and supported on the legs J, upon which are carried the burners, which may be one or two or more. The supporting-plate I is provided at each burner with an upward conical proj ection marked M, through the center of which is an aperture F, and the wick-tube casing H is supported by a bracket K secured to supporting-plate I, and having an extension 7o reaching under the bottom of the casing H.

G represents the wick-tube supported within casing II concentric with aperture F, and N represents the thumb-piece of the ratchetwheel by which the Wick is raised and lowered.

E represents a combustion chamber or chim neyhaving a circular body, and having at its bottom an upwardly and inwardly projecting tubular double cone P Q, the lower part of which, P, is arranged to fit over cone M, thus holding said combustion-chamber axially in line with the wick-tube while the upper cone, Q, serves as the ordinary burner-cone. The upper part of the chimney E, I prefer to make partially cone-shaped, as shown in Fig. 1, to direct the heat to the center of thepot-hole.

In order to rigidly and firmly secure the griddle-plate to the pot-hole, I provide griddle-plate B with one or more downwardly and radially projecting lugs C, and in the edges of the pot-hole make a corresponding number of notches D to receive said lugs C, so that by placing the griddle-plate in such position that lugs O register with notches D the lugs pass below the under side of the top A, and then by turning the griddle-plates slightly each lug engages with the top A and holds the griddleplate in position. This construction of the supporting-plate and combustion chamber or chimney enables the chimney to be readily tipped or removed for the purpose of lighting the burner, and centers it above the burner in addition to holding it firmly in place.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an oil stove, the combination with the supporting frame, of a supporting plate secured to said frame at a point intermediate the top and bottom portions thereof and provided with one or more upwardly extending conical projections, a wick tube arranged below and concentric with the cone and supported by means of a bracket secured to the under side of the supporting plate, and a combustion chamber having its bottom formed with a tubular double cone, the lower one of which engages with the cone on the supporting plate, substantially as described.

2. In an oil stove, the combination with the frame thereof, of a supporting plate I secured to said frame at a point below the top, and provided with one or more upwardly extending conical projections M, a depending bracket K secured to the under side of the plate and provided at its lower end with a lateral arm, 70, a wick tube H supported by said lateral arm and having its upper end extending upward into the conical projection, a combustion chamber E provided with tubular cones P, Q, the lower one of which engages with the cone on the supporting plate whereby said combustion chamber is supported and centered above the burner, and an upwardly and inwardly flaring hood for the combustion chamber, substantially as described.

ALLIE R. WELOII. \Vitnesses:

AMELIA J. WILLIAMS, GEO. S. GLAZIER. 

